The microbeads plastics we are talking about are very small plastic «beads» contained in the vast majority of personal care products such as exfoliating gels, toothpaste, moisturizers and many more. They are made mainly of polyethylene (PE) but also of polypropylene (PP), polyethylene terephthalate (PET), as well as methyl polymethacrylate (PMMA) and nylon debris.

These micro-particles, being so small, are not filtered by the systems of purification of waters, reason why they travel by the network of sewage until arriving to our rivers and of there, to our seas and oceans. They create a buildup of plastic in marine environments that is very harmful to the environment as they participate in the creation of the large plastic soup in which our oceans are being transformed.

what do exfoliating creams, shaving creams, toothpaste, soaps have in common?

Apart from many common ingredients, many of them contain plastic microspheres or plastic microbeads. This may sound strange to readers but these ingredients are very common in different products. These spheres are used as additives because of their abrasive properties, so they sometimes replace natural exfoliating materials such as pumice, oats or pieces of almonds that are commonly added to cosmetic products

the regulation in some countries on the subject of plastics is nil, however, is a problem that has been attacking the rest of the world, so banning the production of cosmetics with microspheres would be the first step to protect our seas and the species that live in them ..

The alternative is use of microbeads organic tagua in different dimension mesh…